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Comment by shmerlhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?532031
http://www.osnews.com/thread?532031Just to clarify, Jolla aren't going to release Meego hansets, they'll make handsets with an OS based on Mer Core with their UI. Jolla use Meego name rather loosely, referring to the effort inherited from the Meego project, rather than to the Meego project itself which is managed by the Linux Foundation and is now basically halted.Edited 2012-08-24 22:32 UTCFri, 24 Aug 2012 22:31:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (shmerl)CommentsComment by daraihttp://www.osnews.com/thread?532034
http://www.osnews.com/thread?532034What's the point in being able to use apps from different platforms? Will this not encourage developers to code native apps? I'm all for Mer and I'm all for Jolla, but if I can remember this was quite a few times (OS/2, Playbook, etc.) and it had the opposite effect of pulling in more devs/support.Fri, 24 Aug 2012 22:40:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Darai)CommentsRE: Comment by daraihttp://www.osnews.com/thread?532036
http://www.osnews.com/thread?532036I guess their point it to compensate for some applications which are still missing in the native form. Same as for example Wine is useful to run something that you can't run natively. It doesn't discourage creating more native applications, since ACL and etc. is not as good as native code, and it's just a fallback when there are no other options.Edited 2012-08-24 22:49 UTCFri, 24 Aug 2012 22:47:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (shmerl)CommentsRE: Comment by daraihttp://www.osnews.com/thread?532111
http://www.osnews.com/thread?532111It may pull in fewer developers, but it may pull in more sales. And I'm less certain about the developers - on what other platform can you write "real" applications without compromises?

Build a good device, and I'm sold.Sat, 25 Aug 2012 03:03:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (ricegf)CommentsRE: Comment by daraihttp://www.osnews.com/thread?532141
http://www.osnews.com/thread?532141I see this going the OS/2 waySat, 25 Aug 2012 06:15:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (moondevil)CommentsWronghttp://www.osnews.com/thread?532146
http://www.osnews.com/thread?532146This article is wrong. Jolla has not confirmed any of these things betond that it runs Mer core with it's own UX. Nothing has been said about ACL.Sat, 25 Aug 2012 07:05:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Lava_Croft)CommentsRE[2]: Comment by daraihttp://www.osnews.com/thread?532737
http://www.osnews.com/thread?532737

I guess their point it to compensate for some applications which are still missing in the native form. Same as for example Wine is useful to run something that you can't run natively. It doesn't discourage creating more native applications, since ACL and etc. is not as good as native code, and it's just a fallback when there are no other options.

It clearly states on their website that all Android apps perform as native on the operating system with zero latencies.Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:48:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (watkin5)CommentsRE[2]: Comment by daraihttp://www.osnews.com/thread?533505
http://www.osnews.com/thread?533505

It doesn't discourage creating more native applications, since ACL and etc. is not as good as native code, and it's just a fallback when there are no other options.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, it will just primarily encourage further adoption (and focusing 3rd party dev efforts) of already the most widely adopted & well supported platform, one without such issues - in this case, ~default Android.

Overall, same and again like it was with Meego, fantasies. What Jolla OS ultimately ends up being, in practice - likely just another "radical" skin on top of Android (but lagging even more behind, because of its insistence on very non-standard core). And supposedly people hate those...Fri, 31 Aug 2012 23:38:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (zima)Comments